El 7 Set in english by Brenda Cundell
Pedro Sanchez incorporates the climate emergency at the Presidents’ Conference as proposed by president Ximo Puig at the Climate Summit
At the COP25, the Generalitat leader requested a meeting of autonomous presidents with the chief Executive to deal with the battle against climate change. Together with the president of the Government, Ximo Puig visited areas affected by the storm in Benicarló, Peñíscola and Vinaròs.
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“The Mediterranean is the ground zero for climate change”, warned the president, who shares with Pedro Sánchez the need to take immediate structural measures in view of storms such as the one which battered the Valencian coast. The president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, announced that at the next Autonomous Presidents’ Conference the battle against the effects of climate change will be given a prominent place. This initiative includes a request made by the president of the Generalitat, Ximo Puig, in the COP25 United Nations Climate Summit.
Participating as president of the Spanish delegation at the meeting held by the Committee of the EU Regions held during the COP25, Ximo Puig requested last December that the autonomous presidents meeting with the president of the Government tackles the participation of the autonomous communities against climate change and the key role of the autonomies in view of the environmental emergency and energy and ecology transition.
The president of the Generalitat, Ximo Puig, accompanied by the president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, visited the coastal areas of Benicarló and Peñíscola affected by Storm Gloria in the north of Castellón. Earlier, the chief of the Valencian Executive had travelled to Vinaròs to observe the state of the infrastructures such as the promenade on the Cossis beach and the bridge at Saldonar. The president also travelled to Vilafranca to learn about the damage caused by the snow storm.
The president emphasised that “the Mediterranean is the ground zero” of climate change and shared with Pedro Sánchez that the measures to be adopted as a result of meteorological episodes such as Storm Gloria have to be structural as well as immediate.
Ximo Puig said that actions are already being unveiled to achieve the return to normality as soon as possible in all areas of the Valencian Community where damage has occurred. “The storm caused serious consequences and I want the councils and citizens to trust in the process to recuperate the infrastructures affected”.
In this context, at this week’s meeting the Consell approved the agreement enabling the work to start to alleviate the effects of the storm, from snow, rain, wind and coastal phenomenon which occurred in the Community between the 19th and 22nd January
Urgently, the process has started so that the affected municipalities can contribute their estimates of the damage to infrastructures and public assets.
Regarding medium term actions, Ximo Puig indicated that the Pativel (Plan of Territorial Action for the Green Infrastructure) and sectorial character of the Territorial Action Plan on prevention of Flooding Risk in the Comunitat Valenciana (Patricova) should incorporate “structural measures which help to foresee and fight against the storms, which will always be more frequent”.
The president thanked Pedro Sánchez for “his sensitivity towards the people of Valencia, by being here today in the Comunitat Valenciana, as happened some months ago with the visit to the Vega Baja because of the effects of DANA”. “There was a response to DANA and he has responded immediately now”, he asserted.
“The Mediterranean is the ground zero for climate change”, warned the president, who shares with Pedro Sánchez the need to take immediate structural measures in view of storms such as the one which battered the Valencian coast. The president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, announced that at the next Autonomous Presidents’ Conference the battle against the effects of climate change will be given a prominent place. This initiative includes a request made by the president of the Generalitat, Ximo Puig, in the COP25 United Nations Climate Summit.
Participating as president of the Spanish delegation at the meeting held by the Committee of the EU Regions held during the COP25, Ximo Puig requested last December that the autonomous presidents meeting with the president of the Government tackles the participation of the autonomous communities against climate change and the key role of the autonomies in view of the environmental emergency and energy and ecology transition.
The president of the Generalitat, Ximo Puig, accompanied by the president of the Government, Pedro Sánchez, visited the coastal areas of Benicarló and Peñíscola affected by Storm Gloria in the north of Castellón. Earlier, the chief of the Valencian Executive had travelled to Vinaròs to observe the state of the infrastructures such as the promenade on the Cossis beach and the bridge at Saldonar. The president also travelled to Vilafranca to learn about the damage caused by the snow storm.
The president emphasised that “the Mediterranean is the ground zero” of climate change and shared with Pedro Sánchez that the measures to be adopted as a result of meteorological episodes such as Storm Gloria have to be structural as well as immediate.
Ximo Puig said that actions are already being unveiled to achieve the return to normality as soon as possible in all areas of the Valencian Community where damage has occurred. “The storm caused serious consequences and I want the councils and citizens to trust in the process to recuperate the infrastructures affected”.
In this context, at this week’s meeting the Consell approved the agreement enabling the work to start to alleviate the effects of the storm, from snow, rain, wind and coastal phenomenon which occurred in the Community between the 19th and 22nd January
Urgently, the process has started so that the affected municipalities can contribute their estimates of the damage to infrastructures and public assets.
Regarding medium term actions, Ximo Puig indicated that the Pativel (Plan of Territorial Action for the Green Infrastructure) and sectorial character of the Territorial Action Plan on prevention of Flooding Risk in the Comunitat Valenciana (Patricova) should incorporate “structural measures which help to foresee and fight against the storms, which will always be more frequent”.
The president thanked Pedro Sánchez for “his sensitivity towards the people of Valencia, by being here today in the Comunitat Valenciana, as happened some months ago with the visit to the Vega Baja because of the effects of DANA”. “There was a response to DANA and he has responded immediately now”, he asserted.
